Tozquihua (MH886v)

Tozquihua (MH886v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozquihua (perhaps “He Can Sing”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical feather, probably coming from a toztli (yelow-headed parrot). On each side of the feather is a scroll, perhaps a scroll referring to nahuatl, a pleasant sound, and possibly a phonetic indication for the possession suffix -hua as well as a reference to a good singing ability. Tozquitl also refers to the voice.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tozquihua was the name of a Chalcan lord, so perhaps this person was named for someone famous, unless the intention really was to recognize his singing voice. See below for other examples of Tozquihua glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

di^o. tozquiva

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Tozquihua

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

volute(s)

Keywords:

cantar, canciones, plumas, volutas, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tozquihua, someone with a singing voice, name given to rulers and commoners, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozquihua
tozqui(tl), throat or voice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozquitl
toz(tli), yellow-headed Amazon parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Puede Cantar

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=845&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: